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Productivity Commission
Policy Analysts and Data and Research Analyst (Identified and Affirmative Measures Positions)
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC
Salary: $84,228 to $111,130
Classification: APS Level 5, APS Level 6
Position number: PC-2503
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Sunday, 2 March
Agency website: https://www.pc.gov.au
The role: Your experience working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy development, program implementation and/or data analysis will be highly valued in this role. We will be looking for you to apply your conceptual and analytical skills to prepare high-quality research papers, case studies, reports and/or reporting outputs and statistical information. You will engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait people, organisations and communities, along with representatives of other government agencies, businesses and organisations.
Academic qualifications are required, with a preference in areas such as public policy, social policy, economics or other social sciences, law, statistics and data analysis, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies, or evaluation.
Successful applicants may be appointed at either the APS Level 5 or 6 classification, depending on their skills, experience and qualifications.
We value people’s diverse experiences and backgrounds and welcome applications from everyone. For these positions, we are looking for people with knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultures, histories and perspectives. We particularly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who bring significant capabilities and perspectives to our work.
Position contact: Andrew McDonald
Telephone: (03) 9653 2212.
Fair Work Ombudsman
Fair Work Inspector
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing
Location: Adelaide, SA; Bendigo, VIC; Brisbane, QLD; Bunbury, WA; Cairns, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Coffs Harbour, NSW; Darwin, NT; Gold Coast, QLD; Hobart, TAS; Launceston, TAS; Melbourne, VIC; Mount Gambier, SA; Newcastle, NSW; Orange, NSW; Perth, WA; Rockhampton, QLD; Sydney, NSW; Toowoomba, QLD; Traralgon, VIC; Wagga Wagga, NSW; Warrnambool, VIC
Salary: $92,824 to $98,346
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: 25/007EA2
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 2 March
Agency website: http://www.fairwork.gov.au
The role: What does an inspector do?
Fair Work Inspectors investigate possible contraventions of workplace laws by conducting site inspections, interviewing employees/employers, preparing reports and delivering enforcement outcomes.
Much of the role is desk-based; however, there are opportunities to travel to conduct site visits and fieldwork, including in metro, regional and remote parts of Australia, as required.
You will:
- Conduct investigations in accordance with the FWO’s Compliance and Enforcement Policy.
- Work in a fast-paced environment gathering and analysing information to determine compliance with workplace laws.
- Deliver exceptional customer service.
- Use your analytical and problem-solving skills to calculate potential underpayments and identify breaches of workplace rights.
- Develop and maintain internal and external stakeholder relationships to manage policy, project or operational issues.
- Apply innovative initiatives and contribute to change and the improvement in quality and efficiency of services.
- Receive ongoing coaching and support – you will report to an experienced team leader who will work closely with you to develop your skill sets.
- Have autonomy and independence to manage your own workload.
- Work in a geographically dispersed team.
Contact: Recruitment Team
Email: [email protected].
National Disability Insurance Agency
EL1 Assistant Director, Scheme Claims and Payments Branch Opportunities
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Geelong, VIC; Midland, WA; Parramatta, NSW; Richmond, QLD
Salary: $116,118 to $127,090
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: 0192_01/25_EXT
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Sunday, 2 March
Agency website: https://www.ndis.gov.au
The role: We are looking for high-performing, enthusiastic and dedicated leaders who are passionate about making a meaningful impact for NDIS participants. As part of the Scheme Claims and Payments Branch, you will play a critical role in ensuring NDIS payments are accurate, efficient, and aligned with the NDIA’s purpose.
You will develop and maintain trusted stakeholder relationships across the NDIA and with external partners, ensuring effective collaboration and alignment on key initiatives. You will implement effective financial controls and processes to ensure compliance with legislation, policies, and governance frameworks to maintain operational integrity and deliver NDIS payments in a timely and accurate manner.
We are looking to fill the following vacancies:
- EL1 Assistant Director, Service Design and Improvement
- EL1 Assistant Director, Service Delivery
- EL1 Assistant Director, Reporting, Analytics and Data
- EL1 Assistant Director, Helpdesk and System Support
- EL1 Assistant Director, Business Improvement and Quality.
Position contact: Paul Fraser
Email: [email protected].
Department of Home Affairs
Executive Assistant
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing
Various locations: ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA
Salary: $74,049 to $79,871
Classification: APS Level 4
Position number: 137062
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 2 March
Agency website: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au
The role: At the APS 4 level, candidates will be expected to:
- Undertake diary management, including prioritising time and drawing attention to matters of importance.
- Address routine to moderately complex telephone and email inquiries and independently respond to internal and external queries.
- Under general direction, prepare meeting materials, correspondence, presentations and minutes, including the administration of critical, confidential and sensitive information.
- React quickly and flexibly to any change in the executive’s schedule, including rescheduling to achieve the required outcomes.
- Have excellent interpersonal skills and undertake other administrative tasks and ad hoc activities for the executive as required.
- Provide quality assurance including proofreading, editing and drafting of documents such as briefs, minutes and other advice in accordance with departmental guidelines.
- Liaise with stakeholders and assist with the resolution of moderately complex issues.
- Under general direction, use a level of tact, diplomacy or persuasion to renegotiate timeframes with stakeholders if it is clear that timeframes will not be met.
- Anticipate and identify relevant internal stakeholders’ expectations and concerns and adapt communication style to present messages in a clear and concise manner.
- Provide support and guidance to a lower-level or new staff member to successfully carry out the role.
- Explore opportunities for improved practices and processes, both individually and as part of the broader Executive Support Network.
- Contribute to a healthy and safe working environment, modelling ethical behaviour and practices consistent with the APS Code of Conduct and APS Values.
Contact: SES Unit
Email: [email protected].
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Regulatory Compliance Chemist
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Lucas Heights, NSW
Salary: $93,000 to $125,000
Position number: PD-2291
Applications close: Sunday, 2 March
Agency website: https://www.ansto.gov.au
The role: Your duties and responsibilities:
- Improve and develop regulatory compliance documentation and quality management systems for complex sample preparation processes.
- Plan and implement sample processing innovations of new and existing methods through collaborative experimentation and testing.
- Apply analytical chemistry expertise to support standardised sample processing (both routine and non-routine) of user projects across all aspects of the AMS chemistry facility.
- Train and support facility users in routine AMS laboratory methods, quality control procedures and regulatory/safety controls.
Position contact: David Child
Telephone: (02) 9717 3851.
Administrative Review Tribunal
APS6 – Senior Accessibility Liaison Officer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Hobart, TAS; Melbourne, VIC; Perth, WA; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $90,199 to $102,499
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: V25002
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Sunday, 2 March
Agency website: https://www.art.gov.au
The role: Key duties of the position include:
- Innovation and Change: Identify innovative solutions and contribute to the implementation of new or changed ways of working to enhance the tribunal’s capacity for providing high-quality and accessible services to users.
- Service Delivery: Contribute to the delivery of accessibility and user-centred design functions, ensuring consistent, accessible, timely and high-quality services to external and internal users. Contribute to the management of more complex individual cases and complex accessibility issues. Maintain knowledge of best practice, including trauma-informed practices, in providing services to people with disability and vulnerable people.
- Strategic and Operational Advice: Provide high-level strategic advice to senior management, and day-to-day operational advice and guidance to colleagues on accessibility and design matters. Collaborate with other ART sections to ensure an integrated approach to the planning and delivery of services to users, aligned with the tribunal’s strategic priorities. Identify and actively manage risks, escalating as appropriate.
- Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain productive and collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders to further the achievement of the tribunal’s statutory objectives and to support the work of the Accessibility and User-centred Design section.
Position contact: Michael McIvor
Telephone: (03) 9454 6389.
Australian War Memorial
Education Assistants
Job type: Casual, Non-Ongoing
Location: Campbell, ACT
Salary: $63,810 to $69,476
Classification: APS Level 3
Position number: Multiple
Applications close: Sunday, 2 March
Agency website: https://www.awm.gov.au
The role: Key duties of the position include:
- Under general direction, deliver education and public programs to a range of visitors to the memorial, including out of hours, liaising with memorial staff and volunteers, school teachers and tour operators, on operational matters pertaining to the visit.
- Under guidance, assist in the development of Australian Curriculum-aligned educational programs.
- Assist in administrative tasks and project work related to the provision of the memorial’s education and public programs and education resources.
Additional Requirements:
- Experience working with children is essential.
Position contact: Nathan Rogers
Telephone: (02) 6243 4298.
National Disability Insurance Agency
EL2 Director Crisis Coordination
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Deakin, ACT; Geelong, VIC; Hobart, TAS; Perth, WA; Richmond, VIC; Surry Hills, NSW
Salary: $136,863 to $155,386
Classification: Executive Level 2
Position number: 0313_02/25_EXT
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 2 March
Agency website: https://www.ndis.gov.au
The role: As EL2 Director Crisis Coordination, you will be responsible for the design, development and implementation of contemporary ”All-Hazards” crisis and incident/emergency management planning, in consultation with internal and external stakeholders. You will work collaboratively across the agency, identifying stakeholder needs when initiating the development of new systems, procedures and policies, ensuring alignment of agency planning and responses.
Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:
- Facilitation of education and awareness activities to internal stakeholders, including detailed scenario exercises to test the effectiveness of processes and planning documents.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to identify and maintain mutually beneficial and productive working relationships, raising awareness and considerations of people with disability in the crisis/emergency management space.
- Providing emergency management support to state and territory Incident Controllers in planning, response and recovery activities.
- Prepare executive and ministerial briefs and other senior executive reporting.
- Represent and collaborate on behalf of the agency to mutually advance the agency’s interest across whole of government.
Position contact: Vicky Reid
Telephone: (03) 5225 2763.
Australian Secret Intelligence Service
Adviser, Learning Management Systems (LMS) Administrator
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Brisbane, QLD
Salary: $111,989 to $129,063
Classification: APS Level 6
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Sunday, 2 March
Agency website: https://www.asis.gov.au
The role: The following is an overview of key responsibilities and tasks:
- Provide system administration of the enterprise learning management system (LMS).
- Structure and create initial training workflows in the LMS and provide support to course owners relating to course administration functions, including developing, maintaining and managing up-to-date and relevant work instructions.
- Guide technical enhancements of learning records and integrate with HR systems to support people capability management and individual career planning.
- Provide enterprise reporting for stakeholders on training development and delivery matters.
- Collaborate with the digital learning and development design team and stakeholders during learning needs analysis to provide advice on the best use of the learning system, including naming conventions, architecture and functionalities that will optimise the learning experience for learners.
- Collaborate with business areas service-wide to transition siloed training administration and record-keeping into LMS workflows.
- Identify and collect appropriate data to analyse use and effectiveness of the LMS to ensure continuous improvement while also building an evaluation strategy in consultation with the digital learning team to inform the overall effectiveness of learning programs supported by the LMS platform.
National Gallery of Australia
Conservation Technician, Framing
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Parkes, ACT
Classification: APS Level 4
Position number: 5021
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Sunday, 2 March
Agency website: https://nga.gov.au/about-us/jobs
The role: In accordance with the APS 4 work-level standards, you will:
Assist Paintings Conservation staff with the storage, display, conservation and packing requirements of the NGA paintings collection. This role will assist in all aspects of preparation and maintenance of paintings supports and frames to meet the NGA display, storage and lending requirements of the paintings collection.
Undertake and maintain accurate written and photographic documentation and records for all work completed. Communicate framing requirements to a wide range of stakeholders.
In consultation, carry out the structural preparation and framing/reframing of paintings for exhibition, loan, storage and transportation. Work to include modification of primary and secondary supports and specification and modification of new and existing frames.
As directed, undertake responsibility for a regular program of basic maintenance of framed works on display and in storage in the gallery. Assist paintings conservators in the routine operation of the section.
Maintain framing workshop space and equipment. Assist the Senior Paintings Conservator in maintaining materials stocks, placing orders, and researching new/alternative materials.
Contact: Recruitment
Telephone: (02) 6120 2989.
Australian Secret Intelligence Service
Entry-Level Programs
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Brisbane, QLD
Salary: $111,989 to $129,063
Classification: APS Level 6
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Sunday, 2 March
Agency website: https://www.asis.gov.au
The role: The following is an overview of key responsibilities and tasks:
- Coordinate the end-to-end processes of ELP development programs.
- Develop and maintain effective relationships, including internal stakeholders and external partnerships.
- Contribute to community initiatives.
- Support staff and facilitate growth environments.
- Identify and improve business process.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
APS6 – Metadata Officer
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $94,125 to $104,053
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: 015_02/25
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Monday, 3 March
Agency website: https://www.aihw.gov.au
The role: Under general direction, you will:
- Provide advice to AIHW and external stakeholders to support the continuous quality improvement of metadata held within the AIHW Metadata Online Registry (METEOR).
- Support the secretariat for AIHW’s National Health Data and Information Standards Committee (NHDISC)
- Support the ongoing administration of the METEOR platform, including service desk, workgroup and user management.
- Support standards-based, best-practice improvements to METEOR, metadata, business rules, and standard operating procedures.
Position contact: Niall O’Driscoll
Telephone: (02) 9268 6044.
Australian Sports Commission
Assistant Finance Manager
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $102,137 to $117,758
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: 0908
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Monday, 3 March
Agency website: https://www.ausport.gov.au
The role: The Assistant Finance Manager will assist the Finance Managers in providing business advice and support on financial planning, resource management, budgetary control, business application systems, and risk management. This role contributes to achieving strategic priorities by ensuring accurate financial analysis and reporting, supporting budget processes, and assisting in decision-making at both the program and group levels.
Position contact: Jared Hill
Telephone: (02) 6214 1057.
Federal Court of Australia
Project Coordinator
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $90,199 to $101,022
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: 0034-01-25
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Tuesday, 4 March
Agency website: https://www.fedcourt.gov.au
The role: Key duties include:
- Demonstrate team communication skills with the ability to lead and influence outcomes.
- Demonstrate project management experience focusing on delivering results.
- Implement effective communication and collaboration skills focusing on stakeholder management.
- Manage competing priorities and work well under time pressure.
- Be proactive, adaptable, and committed to team success.
- Undertake ad hoc administrative tasks including scheduling meetings, preparing documents and generating reports.
Position contact: Talleah Ruddock
Telephone: (02) 9184 5044.
Department of Parliamentary Services (DPS)
Hansard Editor PSL5/6
Branch: Digital Recording Services Branch
Section: Hansard
Job type: Ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $89,410 – $109,967
Classification: Parliamentary Service Level 5/6
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Thursday, 6 March
Agency website: https://jobs.dps.gov.au/job/Hansard-Editor-PSL56/1060445366
The role: The duties will include, but are not limited to:
- Produces accurate and timely parliamentary transcripts. This requires:
- Excellent editorial, grammatical and comprehension skills.
- The ability to meet tight deadlines in a high-volume, high-pressure work environment.
- Broad general knowledge and understanding of current affairs.
- Good communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment to achieve section outcomes.
- The ability to achieve results and the capacity to adapt to change.
- The ability to transcribe using voice recognition and/or keyboarding skills.
- Research skills.
- Supports production of parliamentary committee transcripts by providing logs of terms and proceedings and voiceovers on committee recordings.
- Undertakes other duties as directed.
- A Hansard Editor who has progressed through the broadband to PSL6 also:
- Demonstrates highly developed working knowledge of Australian writing style and usage standards and of parliamentary procedure, as they apply to Hansard production.
- Subedits other editors’ work for accuracy and provides constructive feedback.
- Proof-checks Hansard transcripts for official publication.
- Assumes ongoing responsibility for non-editorial duties supporting the operation of Hansard.
At DPS, we acknowledge the value diversity brings. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that ensures all our people can contribute to our shared purpose. We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, mature-age people, people from diverse backgrounds and people with disability.
Position contact: Ashley Oakes
Telephone: (02) 6277 8202.
